nullagentSo, funny story. Every cop's body cam is basically an AirTag. I did a talk at DEFCON explaining how you can detect and ID police body cams with your phone.
KingMob
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Roaming digital guy. Maintainer of Clojure open source projects Aleph and Manifold. Another American afraid of dying in poverty. Former neuroscientist of consciousness. Buddhist monk for like, two weeks.
Dan PortsMy computer architect friend Elba often brings her dog Gigi over to run around my garden. When I hold up a stick, Gigi runs off to fetch it before I’ve even thrown it.
She clearly understands both branch prediction and pre-fetching.
HeavenlyPossumA techno-optimist responded to my thread about societal collapse in the US by telling me how great things are now. Did you know we have smart phones? Did you know that goods and services are more readily available? Did you know things are getting better?
The critical corollary for any claim that things are getting better is “for whom?”
- Life expectancy in the US had been essentially flat since 2008 and has been declining since 2019, before the pandemic. It’s now about 76.4 years, erasing decades of gain.
- Americans are getting shorter. American heights peaked decades ago and have fallen both in comparison to other countries and absolutely, a sign of society-wide malnutrition.
- Nearly 2 million Americans are imprisoned and another 3 million are under supervision of the carceral system, the largest in the world.
- Fully 70% of Americans report financial stress and less than half have any emergency savings. Most people are one broken leg, busted furnace, or car collision from ruin.
But things are great! I have an iPhone! I’m richer than the kings of old!
Ramsey Nassercurrent trajectory: its a top down physics smash-em-up where you play an orca and you smash into yachts to sink them. you can dive to get under the yachts and jump out of the water the way whales do, landing on a yacht for an immediate smash. working title is "gibraltar" after the location where some of the first orca attacks were recorded and because that name has an arabic origin.
Esteban Küber 
"You can say 'all are welcome,' but if wolves and sheep are both welcome then you're only going to get wolves. The the smart sheep will go somewhere else and the naive sheep will be eaten and processed. [...] Refusing to choose is a choice. It's a choice in favor of the people who prey on others and who refuse to acknowledge the humanity of those they hate."
Anarcho DoggoMe: I despise computers; I will now abscond to the woods
*figures a thing out
Me: haha! Technology is the tits. I am the holy trinity of programming
Brian Honan
Bigthinkingcap
Miriam's on Medical Leave
Phil Landmeier@Adam_Cadmon1 Yes, fireflies are fewer and fewer each year here in North Central West Virginia. 15 years ago, they were plentiful. I used to take time-exposure photos of them at twilight.
Now they are a rarity. Once in a while I'll see a single one.
All insects are down, actually. There used to be lots of Japanese stink bugs. Not anymore. I take walks in the evening and return without a single mosquito bite. They used to eat me alive. The lack of bites is a plus but it's wrong.
There used to be little flocks of chimney swifts zooming around at all hours of the day. You could always see them and hear them twittering as they fed on insects aloft. Their constant background twittering is now replaced by silence. The disappearance happened this year. They were plentiful a few months ago.